To support McGill’s closure, the campus is making some technical changes to the VPN to allow it to scale up for a larger number of users. A side effect of these changes is that most electronic resources will not be accessible via the VPN for the time being.

Classified as: system notification
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Published on: 15 Mar 2020

Updated March 23, 2020

Further to Quebec government and university directives, McGill campuses will be closed until May 1. As a result, all library branches on both campuses will be closed until May 1.

As a result of the closure, the Library is implementing the following initiatives:

Classified as: user services, temporary closure, library closures
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Published on: 14 Mar 2020

Starting March 10th, the LibQUAL+ survey will be emailed to a random sample of McGill students as well as to all professors, instructors, research assistants, and research associates in the Faculties of Agricultural & Environmental Sciences, Dentistry, Engineering, Medicine, and Science (including associated schools in these faculties).

Classified as: Library news
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Published on: 6 Mar 2020

Several Library websites will be unavailable for approximately 15 minutes between 6 AM and 7 AM tomorrow morning, Thursday, February 20, 2020 for scheduled maintenance.

The following sites and services will be affected:

Classified as: downtime
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Published on: 19 Feb 2020

McGill Library is excited to announce the launch of the new site for the open access digital repository eScholarship@McGill, which stores and showcases the publications and theses of McGill University faculty, researchers, and students. The repository exists in an online, open-access environment, making it easy for researchers all over the world to find and access the University’s published research output.

Classified as: Library news
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Published on: 10 Feb 2020

Ever been frustrated by how long it takes for you to find a seat in the Humanities and Social Sciences Library?

Classified as: user experience, user services, HSSL news
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Published on: 10 Feb 2020

McGill Library is excited to announce that we will be integrating our Discovery catalogue and link resolver with BrowZine’s LibKey service starting on February 4, 2020.

This means that links to article PDFs will be available right from the catalogue or link resolver for many articles. The service will also provide an option for browsing articles from the same issue or latest issue of the parent journal.

 

 

Follow these instructions:

Classified as: Library news
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Published on: 29 Jan 2020

McGill Library is happy to announce a partnership with the Bureau de coopération interuniversitaire (BCI) and a coalition of 17 other Quebec universities to provide the Quebec scholarly community with access to three digital platforms:

Classified as: system notification, Library resources
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Published on: 28 Jan 2020

 

Update, January 28, 6:45 PM: The server migration for our Workshops and tours application is complete and McGill login is working as expected.

Classified as: downtime, system maintenance
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Published on: 24 Jan 2020

Seventy-five new study spaces on the third floor of the Redpath Library Building are now available to students.

In order to make room for the furniture, the Blackader-Lauterman Art & Architecture Reference/Folio Collection has been relocated to a larger space on the same floor. Signage is be displayed directing users to the new areas.


Please note:

Classified as: Library news, Renovations, HSSL news
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Published on: 23 Jan 2020

McGill Library is happy to announce that we have partnered with Unsplash for Education to make high-quality public domain visuals from McGill's digital collections available to millions of students, teachers, creators, and writers from around the world. Scholars can now access these high-resolution images to create presentations, reports, graphics, blog posts, digital artwork, and more. Please note that Unsplash selects content from the Library’s digitized public domain content.

Classified as: Library resources, digital collections
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Published on: 22 Jan 2020

As of January 2020, the Library’s Research Commons in the Redpath Library Building has been officially renamed Innovation Commons to better reflect the services offered.

The Innovation Commons is a technology-enhanced, collaborative space that brings together services and resources to support researchers.

It includes spaces, support, and equipment for integrating technology and research and offers services such as 3D printing and virtual reality.

Classified as: Library news, Humanities and Social Sciences Library news
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Published on: 16 Jan 2020

The Library is closed for the holidays from Tuesday, December 24 at noon to Thursday, January 2, 2020, inclusive.

All branches will open on Friday, January 3, 2020.

Please visit individual branch pages for specific opening hours: https://www.mcgill.ca/library/branches

Classified as: holiday closures, statutory holidays
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Published on: 20 Dec 2019

 

On Monday, January 6, 2020, OverDrive will move to a more streamlined interface featuring visually cleaner access to subjects and 'collections'. No change will be required in the way you sign-in to your OverDrive account, or how you sign-out ebooks or audiobooks, and existing links in the catalogue or on guides will automatically redirect to the new interface. The Libby app will also become available to McGill users in parallel to the regular OverDrive app after this interface upgrade.

Classified as: system upgrade
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Published on: 19 Dec 2019

Space Update: The Osler Library of the History of Medicine space has been repaired and reconstructed. The third and fourth floor spaces surrounding the Osler Library and managed by the Faculty of Medicine are now being renovated. As a result, the Osler Library of the History of Medicine will be operational following the completion of this construction project. Library services in McIntyre are expected to resume in 2021.

Osler materials continue to be accessible and Osler staff are available to assist users.

Classified as: ROAAr – Rare Books, Osler, Art, Archives, Osler Library of the History of Medicine, temporary closure
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Published on: 14 Dec 2019

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